Apparatus for removing hairs.



v No. 845,455. PATENTED PEB.26,1'907.

M. G. FOWLER. v APPARATUS FOR REMOVING HAIRS.

- APPLICATION FILED NOV. 13, 1906.

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MANLEY G. FOWLER, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK.

APPARATUS FOR REMOVING HAIRS- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 26, 1907.

Application filed November 13,1906. Serial 110.343.2 15.

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Be it known that I, MANLEY G. FOWLER, ofRochester, in the county of Monroe and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Apparatus for Removing Hairs, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and shown in the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to means and mechanism for removing superfluous and undesirable hairs from the face, neck, hands, &c.; and the object of the invention, among others, is to provide a light jointed metallic support or holder adapted to be secured to some convenient object or body, as a table, the arm of a chair, or other object for holding the operating parts.

Another object of the invention is to provide a plate or part capable of having universal motion upon the holder adapted for holding a multitude of instruments employed for directly acting upon the individual hairs to be removed and means for electrically connecting said instruments with the plate.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will be brought out and made to appear in the following description, and particularly pointed out in the appended claims, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which, with the reference characters marked thereon, form a part of this specification.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the device as ready for use. Fig. 2 shows in plan one form of the holding-plate detached. Fig. 3 is a plan of the device seen as indicated by arrow a in Fig. 1, the plate being shown by dotted lines as shifted in the holder, parts be ing omitted. Fig. 4 is an elevation of the device seen as indicated by arrow 1) in Fig. 3, parts being broken away. Fig. 5 shows in larger size the mechanism immediately holding the plate detached, the clamping-nut and a portion of the plate being longitudinally sectioned. Fig. 6 shows a set-pin and needle connected with a current-conductor as in use, parts being in longitudinal section.

Referring to the parts shown, 1 is a metallic standard, as a piece of wire resting in a foot-piece 2, as clearly shown in Figs. 1 and 4, and having swivel motion therein. This foot-piece 2 is formed to rest upon a body 3, Fig. 1, as the arm of a chair occupied by the patient, a table, shelf, or other article or body, as may be convenient, it being provided with holes 4, Fig. 3, for receiving fastening-screws 24. At its upper end the standard 1 is bent at right angles and threaded axially in one branch or end of a swivel-joint 5, Figs. 1, 3, and 4, the opposite end of said joint 5 receiving axially the threaded end of a second section of rod 6. The parts 1, 5, and 6 are in a vertical plane, as appears in Fig. 3, the rod 6 being capable of having vertical swinging motions upon the joint 5 in said plane when the controlling clamping thumb-nut 22 is loosened to permit free motion for the oint. The opposite end of the rod 6 is bent at right angles, with its terminal threaded axially in the end of a longitudinally split socket 7, a portion of which. socket being threaded to receive a knurled clamping-nut 8. Within the spherical portion of the socket. 7 is placed a ball 9 at the adjacent end, of a third section or red 10, the parts constituting a ball-andsocket joint for allowing said rod or section 10 universal movements about or upon the section 6.

At its opposite end the rod or section 10 is attached to a socket 11, similar to the socket 7, with clamping-nut 12, said socket 11 con taining a .ball 13, with extension or shank 14, holding a perforated plate 15. The ball 13 is capable of turning in the socket 11, so the plate 15 may be made to face in any direction necessary in using the apparatus. The plate 15 has also a swivel motion .on the extended part 14, turning upon a threaded axial portion 16, Fig. 5, and secured to place by a thumb-nut 17.

18, Figs. 3 and 6, are a series of equal and uniform set pins or studs formed to have their ends inserted in the perforations 19, Fig. 4, of the plate 15, these studs or pins being removable from the plate and each carrying a slender and highly-flexible current-conductor 20. To the extreme ends of these conductors 20 are secured steel needles 21, designed to directly engage the hairs to be removed, an electrical current of low voltage, as from a battery, .being passed through the conductors 20 and the needles by simple means, as a current-wire 25, Fig. 5, having its end inserted between the flange of the part 14 and the adjacent part of the plate 15.

It will be understood that the form of the metal plate 15 is not essential to the invention, as it may be rectangular, as shown in Fig. 4, circular, as appears in Fig. 2, or hexagonal or other form, as may be found convenient. The plate, whatever its form, is

made of a conducting material for electrical currents and 1s pierced wlth numerous holes to receive a large number of set-pins 18, each with its needle 21 to simultaneously act upon as many hairs to be removed. In using the apparatus it is near the patient and the points of the needles inserted singly through the skin at the roots of the hairs, which being quickly killed by the action of the electrified needles are put into a condition to be extracted in rapid succession.

\Vith this apparatus I employ an elastic holder 23 on the section 6, Figs. 1, 3, and 4, for an electric lamp.

hat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters latent, is

1. In an apparatus for removing superfluous hairs, a holder comprising sections connected by universal joints, a plate ha g universal connection with the extreme end of said holder, said plate being mounted to swivel, means for holding said plate against such movement and means electrically connected With said plate to engage the hairs.

2. In an apparatus for removing stuperfluous hairs, a holder comprising sections connected by universal jolnts, a plate having universal connection with the extreme end or I said holder, said plate being mounted to swivel, means for holdin said plate against such movement, means electrically conneeted with said. plate to eigage the hairs, the support of said plate l'ia'ving a flange, and :1 current-wire having its end held between said plate and flange.

3. An apparatus -for treatment of hair growth, having a holder for the operating instruments, consisting 01 sections 1, (i and it). the sections 1. and 6 being in a plane and joined to move therein, and the section it) joined to have universal movements upon the section 6, and a perforated plate held ie have universal motion at the end of scetion lo and mounted to swivel upon its sup port, and a series of operating instruments eleetrimlly connected with said plate.

In witness wliereo'l I have hereunto set my hand, this 9th day of Novemb r 1906, in the presence oil two sul. serihing wilnesses.

IvIANLE Y G. FOW li lC l Witnesses V HARRY E. LEARY, JAMES L. BREWER. 

